Einstein Noted as an Iconoclast In Research, Politics and Religion; His Early Spare-Time Reflections in Bern Led to Strong Belief in Social Equality and Hope for a World Government

In 1904, Albert Einstein, then in obscure young man of 25, could be seen daily in the late afternoon wheeling a baby carriage on the streets of Bern, Switzerland, halting now and then, unmindful of the traffic around him, to scribble down some mathematical symbols in a notebook that shared the carriage with his infant son, also named Albert.

April 19, 1955

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